The phrase "a step rather" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a preference or comparison, but it lacks context to be usable.
Example: "I would prefer to take a step rather than make a leap into the unknown."
Alternatives: "a step instead" or "a step more".
"Hopefully, this is a positive step rather than a punitive step," said Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, the California Democrat who sponsored one of the state's several pending reporting bills.
None of the justices interviewed suggested that more frequent recusals from contributors' cases would be a positive step rather than a recipe for havoc.
Mr. Bush did just that tonight, but leading experts were sorely disappointed by his decision, describing it as a baby step, rather than a giant leap, for medical research.
Scientific advances in child development can be frustrating because they move at a stutter step rather than a march, but parents should not burn all the books because some don't live up to their promise.
Scotland forward Blair Cowan said Saturday's defeat at Murrayfield is a sideways step rather than a backwards one, and that they have the ability to turn their tournament around against England at Twickenham on 15 March.
Overall, the motif conservation constraint is a validation step rather than an additional constraint, since all the MoLFunCs determined by the other steps displayed all expected motifs.
These observations were taken as an indication that the formation of disulfide bonds was an obligate step, rather than an undesirable diversion from the heme attachment reaction to apocytochromes.
The negative values of entropy of activation in the absence and presence of inhibitor implies that the rate-determining step for the activated complex is an association step rather than a dissociation step, meaning that during adsorption process the decrease in disordering takes place on moving from reactants to the activated complex [49].
"Absolutely not". Instead, since Wattpad stories tend to be serialized, they often have a "great episodic flow" that makes a TV deal a natural first step, rather than a book publication.
"I wanted to take a side step, rather than just relishing the greatness of the museum," Mr. Aitken said.
